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Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday filed a complaint before the Delhi Police Cyber Cell for getting rape threats on her Instagram account.
Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief Swati Maliwal on Wednesday filed a complaint before the Delhi Police Cyber Cell for getting rape threats on her Instagram account. A week ago, she had written a letter to the Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur demanding the removal of director Sajid Khan from ‘Bigg Boss’.
Maliwal stated she is getting rape threats for written the letter to Anurag Thakur. She claimed such people want her to stop the work of DCW. “I am filing a complaint before the police. Please register an FIR and arrest such persons,” Maliwal tweeted.
The letter addressed to DCP Cyber Cell of Delhi Police, Prashant Gautam, reads, “This is to bring to your kind notice the rape threats that are being received by the undersigned since the past two days, ever since the Delhi Commission for Women took congnizance of the complaints against Sajid Khan, a participant in the popular TV show-Bigg Boss. As you may be aware, in 2018, during the #MeToo movement, over 10 actresses, models and journalists spoke out against the alleged sexual offences committed by Sajid Khan.”
“Subsequently, he was suspended from the Indian Film and Television Directors Association from directing movies for a year. However, recently, in an apparent attempt to whitewash his image, he has been made housemate in the popular TV show ‘Bigg Boss’,” it adds.
Maliwal informs the commission took cognisance of the same and wrote a letter to Anurag Thakur seeking Sajid Khan’s removal from the primetime show. “In view of the commission, giving an opportunity for a re-launch to an alleged sexual predator like Sajid Khan is unwarranted and sends a wrong message to society as well as to the women who risked their cares to expose him. A copy of the letter is attached herewith an Annexure A,” Maliwal asserts in the letter.
“Ever since the commission acted in the matter on 16.10.2022, threats are being received online on the Instagram account of the undersigned. In both threats, the men have stated that Sajid Khan will rape the undersigned. Clearly, these are attempts to intimidate the Commission and thwart its statutory work. Such criminals need to be amused and put behind bars. I request you to register an FIR in the matter, investigate the same and at the accused,” she revealed in the letter to DCP.
Who is Sajid Khan?
During the #MeToo movement, many female journalists, models and actresses spoke against alleged sexual assaults by director Sajid Khan. Most of the complaints were similar in nature and revealed his repugnant deeds.
Sajid has directed movies such as ‘Heyy Babyy’, ‘Humshakals’, ‘Himmatwala’ and ‘Housefull’.
An Indian model had alleged that she was 17 years old when Sajid touched her inappropriately and asked her to strip before him if she wanted a role in his upcoming movie ‘Housefull 4′. Another actress revealed that while discussing a role in an upcoming film ‘Humshakals’, Sajid had asked her to remove her clothes and stated that ‘if he liked what he saw, she might get a role in the movie’.
Another actress had alleged that during the casting for the film ‘Himmatwala’, Sajid asked her to strip and when she refused to do so, he pulled her top down.
The sister of the victim (an upcoming actress who later committed suicide) stated that Sajid had asked the victim to take off her undergarments during a script reading session.
The Indian Film and Television Directors Association, upon receiving complaints from a journalist and two aspiring actresses, had suspended Sajid Khan from directing movies in 2019. Furthermore, he was also dropped as a director from the film ‘Housefull 4’ when these complaints had surfaced.
